Poll of the Day > So I beat ruby in FF7 and here is how I did it:

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I looked up guides online but most reference having a gold chocobo already and knights and all the fancy materias, which I didnt have.

I posted here and I got some decent ideas but I just didnt know how to tackle the 800,000 HP when im not doing a whole lot of damage with anything except summons which I hate using because the animations take too long.

I also realized keeping a party of 3 alive takes too much work and i spent more time it seemed, making sure everybody was at full health. So I said fuck that and just used cloud alone.

So, what I did was:

element+fire on my armor, then all I really did was W-item to get 99 elixirs and 99 hero drinks. Then I had 4x cut as well as enemy skill

So pretty much when the battle started I cast big guard to get haste, then I used 4 hero drinks to make me super strong I pretty much repeated the same strategy for half an hour: Dazer to stun him, hit him with 4x cut for 3,500 per cut...when he wakes up and gets an attack off I'd then use W-item for a dazer to stun him then an elixir, then just 4x cut when I can. This prevented his tentacles from attacking too much and he had no 1 hit kill moves on me, so all I had to do was protect against one attack, heal and stun, then 4x cut to whittle it down.

throw in the odd omnislash and there we go. It wasnt even a complex strategy but it worked well. Now ive got all the fancy materias, something ive never once done legitimately(I have used saves with all the fancy shit already on it but never on my own)

I also realized keeping a party of 3 alive takes too much work and i spent more time it seemed, making sure everybody was at full health. So I said fuck that and just used cloud alone.

Did you realize that after I posted the tip to do that in your other topic
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Well I didnt think so at the time. I figured with 3 people itd be easier but it really wasnt.

I did enter the battle with 2 dead, then id revive them because then he wouldnt take anybody away for 32 turns, but it just wasnt worth it.